Honestly, what really tests a person in this trade isn’t placing a short in the gap—it’s whether you can stay steady when the market has been slow to drop. The price kept hovering and fighting around 0.2438. I didn’t change my mindset because of a few small rebounds; only when it moved down to 0.1653 did the heavy pressure at the high finally fully release, and the end result was recorded as +2284.66%.

In the middle, there was a spike and pullback. From the chart, it looked like it might try to pull up again. Many people probably got scared and exited early. I was a bit panicky too at the time, but when I looked back, the support came in only intermittently, and the sell pressure actually became more and more obvious—so I didn’t chase the volatility and mess up my plan.

Real declines have never been a sudden arrival of a single big bearish candle. Usually, there are signals ahead of time, but most people get ground down by the chop and lose patience. Once the sell-off really starts, chasing a short becomes easy to catch a falling knife. Identifying the fatigue at the top early feels far more comfortable.

This time the outcome is logged as +2284.66%, reminding me that trading isn’t about who makes the move faster—it’s about who can stay clear-headed amid fake moves. Being bearish isn’t because it dropped; it’s because the problems I’d been accumulating were finally validated by the market.

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